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This article is from February 4, 2010, and is no longer current.

Easily Enhance Photos

This tutorial is courtesy of the Russell Brown Show.
Camera Raw gives you fast and easy access to the data hidden in photos. Best of all, it comes with Photoshop! In this tutorial, I show you how to bring out the colors and the qualities of an image shot by photographer Clark Little.
The original is fine:

But with a little processing in Camera Raw, it becomes even stronger:

Click on the image below to follow me step by step.

Be sure to download the most recent version of Camera Raw by going to Help > Updates in Photoshop or Bridge.
 

RUSSELL BROWN is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools, and his in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike.
  • Anonymous says:

    Dr. Brown is the best. He always takes you a little bit further than you thought you had to go to finish the picture. It gets better and better.
    Thanks

  • exposay says:

    Excellent Demo of adjustments in Camera Raw, much appreciated!

  • Anonymous says:

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  • Anonymous says:

    Submitted by Guest on Sat, 05/01/2010 – 03:35.

  • Anonymous says:

    I can’t see the movie, I get this error: “Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.”

    New computer here, just updated Media Player a few days ago. Shouldn’t be an issue.

  • Terri Stone says:

    The file is a standard .mov. The direct link is https://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/ClarkLittle_SM.mov

    Terri Stone
    Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com

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